cultural anthropologist || writer || professor
Over the past few days I have been digging through the photo albums of a couple from eastern Oklahoma who have been married - as of July 10th - for 75 years. No small achievement, the couple is 95 and 97 years old now, and still up and about. I digitized several of their …
With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972)
What I like so much about Hyuro's work is the style: Simple color, elegant textures, contoured bodies. The netting cast around and through the bodies in Hyuro's pieces gives a sense of movement and struggle to her rather subdued scenes: Bodies entangled with other other bodies, other animals, that never have any apparent direction or …
If there is always this notion of justice involved in translation and comparativist practice, are we not limiting ourselves in our conceptions of what a comparativist practice looks like? How does the notion of treating objects of knowledge with respect affect our practice of object-making? Respect or justice are not neutral terms that lead us …
'Tornadic Activity' [Oklahoma, 03/2012] charcoal on paper
Monica Patrice Barra 